Appointment Television is a podcast about the TV you want to make time for. Every other Thursday Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew will revisit old shows, discover new ones, and debate everything from highbrow dramas to episodes of The Bachelor.
Episodes (110)
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Episode 131: Spring TV and Queer Eye
Episode 131: Spring TV and Queer Eye
Published: 1 Mar 2018 Duration: 46:58It's that time of year when a young TV fan's eye turns to what's happening in the world of spring television releases. We do a short round of selections, including the final season of The Americans, Heidi Thomas' Little Women, and the new N... Read more →It's that time of year when a young TV fan's eye turns to what's happening in the world of spring television releases. We do a short round of selections, including the final season of The Americans, Heidi Thomas' Little Women, and the new N... Read more →
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Episode 130: Wonder Woman and Slings and Arrows S01E05-06
Episode 130: Wonder Woman and Slings and Arrows S01E05-06
Published: 22 Feb 2018 Duration: 46:11This week, Andrew talks about his experience watching the old 70s Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show, which occupies a space somewhere in between the campy action of 60s Adam West Batman and the campy action of the 80s A-Team. Then, we take one... Read more →This week, Andrew talks about his experience watching the old 70s Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show, which occupies a space somewhere in between the campy action of 60s Adam West Batman and the campy action of the 80s A-Team. Then, we take one... Read more →
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Episode 129: This Is Unnecessarily Morbid and One Day at a Time S2
Episode 129: This Is Unnecessarily Morbid and One Day at a Time S2
Published: 15 Feb 2018 Duration: 51:57We catch up with the show that killed a beloved TV dad with a popular kitchen appliance on the night of the Super Bowl, This Is Us. We then talk about the fantastic second season of Netflix's One Day at a Time, and dig into a little about R... Read more →We catch up with the show that killed a beloved TV dad with a popular kitchen appliance on the night of the Super Bowl, This Is Us. We then talk about the fantastic second season of Netflix's One Day at a Time, and dig into a little about R... Read more →
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Episode 128: Kathryn Recommends More TV, and Slings and Arrows S01E03-4
Episode 128: Kathryn Recommends More TV, and Slings and Arrows S01E03-4
Published: 8 Feb 2018 Duration: 01:06:16This week, special guest Craig (of Overdue fame) joins the show to help Kathryn recommend a new round of shows to our generous patrons. Then, Craig lends us his theatrical expertise as we jump into episodes 3 and 4 of Slings and Arrows. SHO... Read more →This week, special guest Craig (of Overdue fame) joins the show to help Kathryn recommend a new round of shows to our generous patrons. Then, Craig lends us his theatrical expertise as we jump into episodes 3 and 4 of Slings and Arrows. SHO... Read more →
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Episode 128: Black Mirror twiststravaganza
Episode 128: Black Mirror twiststravaganza
Published: 1 Feb 2018 Duration: 52:26We return to the world of Black Mirror after a very long break, this time to do a swing through a few episodes of the new season. Each one of us watched a different episode, and we use this opportunity to play a little game - we describe mo... Read more →We return to the world of Black Mirror after a very long break, this time to do a swing through a few episodes of the new season. Each one of us watched a different episode, and we use this opportunity to play a little game - we describe mo... Read more →
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Episode 126 - Better Never Than Late, and Slings and Arrows S01E01-02
Episode 126 - Better Never Than Late, and Slings and Arrows S01E01-02
Published: 25 Jan 2018 Duration: 47:25This week Andrew suffers through Better Late Than Never, a not-quite-reality show about old men being casually racist in a foreign country. Then, we chat about episodes one and two of Slings and Arrows, our latest TV Book Club. SHOW NOTES ... Read more →This week Andrew suffers through Better Late Than Never, a not-quite-reality show about old men being casually racist in a foreign country. Then, we chat about episodes one and two of Slings and Arrows, our latest TV Book Club. SHOW NOTES ... Read more →
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Episode 125: 2018 resolutions and TV to look forward to
Episode 125: 2018 resolutions and TV to look forward to
Published: 18 Jan 2018 Duration: 41:57We spend a few moments thinking about our TV resolutions for the new year. For Andrew and Kathryn it's mostly about specific TV they'd like to check out; for Margaret it boils down to "actually watch some TV." We then take a look at the fie... Read more →We spend a few moments thinking about our TV resolutions for the new year. For Andrew and Kathryn it's mostly about specific TV they'd like to check out; for Margaret it boils down to "actually watch some TV." We then take a look at the fie... Read more →
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Episode 124 - The Dreadful Jeremy Piven and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Episode 124 - The Dreadful Jeremy Piven and the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Published: 11 Jan 2018 Duration: 44:50This week’s episode is pretty much what it says in the title - we briefly celebrate the unceremonious and thoroughly deserved cancelation of Wisdom of the Crowd, and then we talk about the pleasant surprise that is the first season of Amy S... Read more →This week’s episode is pretty much what it says in the title - we briefly celebrate the unceremonious and thoroughly deserved cancelation of Wisdom of the Crowd, and then we talk about the pleasant surprise that is the first season of Amy S... Read more →
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Episode 123: Five Came Back and a 2017 TV retrospective
Episode 123: Five Came Back and a 2017 TV retrospective
Published: 4 Jan 2018 Duration: 49:04Margaret actually watched some television! She shares that information with us, and we make appropriately impressed noises. We also think back on the year in TV, and the way 2017 shaped the stuff we watched, the stuff we stopped watching, ... Read more →Margaret actually watched some television! She shares that information with us, and we make appropriately impressed noises. We also think back on the year in TV, and the way 2017 shaped the stuff we watched, the stuff we stopped watching, ... Read more →
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Episode 122: The Crown, and trying to make fetch (and a podcast episode) happen
Episode 122: The Crown, and trying to make fetch (and a podcast episode) happen
Published: 28 Dec 2017 Duration: 29:34This week’s abbreviated holiday week episode is all about characters that TV shows want to make “happen.” Sometimes shows and showrunners have a character or a performer that they want us to love who we just can’t love, and that would be fi... Read more →This week’s abbreviated holiday week episode is all about characters that TV shows want to make “happen.” Sometimes shows and showrunners have a character or a performer that they want us to love who we just can’t love, and that would be fi... Read more →
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Episode 121: A Christmas Prince
Episode 121: A Christmas Prince
Published: 21 Dec 2017 Duration: 53:44It's holiday time, so we dedicate the entire episode to a close reading of one of Netflix's forays into the wide world of dedicated Christmas programming: the Hallmark Christmas-style movie A Christmas Prince. Strap in for lying! Mothra! Ne... Read more →It's holiday time, so we dedicate the entire episode to a close reading of one of Netflix's forays into the wide world of dedicated Christmas programming: the Hallmark Christmas-style movie A Christmas Prince. Strap in for lying! Mothra! Ne... Read more →
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Episode 120: TV to binge over the holiday, and Alias Grace
Episode 120: TV to binge over the holiday, and Alias Grace
Published: 14 Dec 2017 Duration: 50:41This week, Kathryn makes a new round of TV recommendations, just in time for the holiday break. We then check in with the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, available on Netflix in the US. TV recommendations! Northern Exposure: h... Read more →This week, Kathryn makes a new round of TV recommendations, just in time for the holiday break. We then check in with the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, available on Netflix in the US. TV recommendations! Northern Exposure: h... Read more →
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Episode 119: Separating the art from the artist and Stranger Things 2 Book Club Part 3
Episode 119: Separating the art from the artist and Stranger Things 2 Book Club Part 3
Published: 7 Dec 2017 Duration: 58:26In the ongoing discussion about how we feel when we find out artists are jerks (or worse), we talk about separating the art from the artist. This discussion happened in the context of Louis C.K., but we think you'll find it relevant for all... Read more →In the ongoing discussion about how we feel when we find out artists are jerks (or worse), we talk about separating the art from the artist. This discussion happened in the context of Louis C.K., but we think you'll find it relevant for all... Read more →
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Episode 118: Lord of the Rings Redux and the Geico Caveman Show
Episode 118: Lord of the Rings Redux and the Geico Caveman Show
Published: 30 Nov 2017 Duration: 45:30This week we talk about Amazon’s attempt to make the next Game of Thrones by revisiting the spring from which Game of Thrones sprang, and the kinds of Tolkien-flavored shows we’d really like to see. Then, one of our listeners and Patreon do... Read more →This week we talk about Amazon’s attempt to make the next Game of Thrones by revisiting the spring from which Game of Thrones sprang, and the kinds of Tolkien-flavored shows we’d really like to see. Then, one of our listeners and Patreon do... Read more →
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Episode 117: Tiny House Hunters and Stranger Things 2 book club part 2
Episode 117: Tiny House Hunters and Stranger Things 2 book club part 2
Published: 23 Nov 2017 Duration: 57:46This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for our Patreons, one of whom forced Andrew to watch an episode of Tiny House Hunters and then share that experience with us. It's pretty amazing. We continue along in our Stranger Things 2 book club, and d... Read more →This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for our Patreons, one of whom forced Andrew to watch an episode of Tiny House Hunters and then share that experience with us. It's pretty amazing. We continue along in our Stranger Things 2 book club, and d... Read more →
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Episode 116: A busy TV November and our favorite women who make TV
Episode 116: A busy TV November and our favorite women who make TV
Published: 16 Nov 2017 Duration: 47:07Appointment Television is a podcast about the TV you want to make time for. Every Thursday Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew will revisit old shows, discover new ones, and debate everything from highbrow dramas to episodes of The Bachelor.Appointment Television is a podcast about the TV you want to make time for. Every Thursday Margaret, Kathryn, and Andrew will revisit old shows, discover new ones, and debate everything from highbrow dramas to episodes of The Bachelor.
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Episode 115: TV recommendations and Stranger Things 2 Book Club
Episode 115: TV recommendations and Stranger Things 2 Book Club
Published: 9 Nov 2017 Duration: 58:35Surprise! It's a new TV book club! We're returning to the world of Hawkins Indiana to talk about Stranger Things 2, and in this episode we consider the first three episodes of the new season. Before we get there, though, we run through a fe... Read more →Surprise! It's a new TV book club! We're returning to the world of Hawkins Indiana to talk about Stranger Things 2, and in this episode we consider the first three episodes of the new season. Before we get there, though, we run through a fe... Read more →
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Episode 114: Bad dicks, good dicks, and American Vandal
Episode 114: Bad dicks, good dicks, and American Vandal
Published: 2 Nov 2017 Duration: 41:57This week we really lean into the whole dick thing - first, we have an (admittedly couple weeks old) discussion about the ever-widening aftershocks of the Weinstein sexual assault allegations. Then, on a funner note, we talk for like half a... Read more →This week we really lean into the whole dick thing - first, we have an (admittedly couple weeks old) discussion about the ever-widening aftershocks of the Weinstein sexual assault allegations. Then, on a funner note, we talk for like half a... Read more →
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Episode 113: The good Mayor and the idiocy of the crowd
Episode 113: The good Mayor and the idiocy of the crowd
Published: 26 Oct 2017 Duration: 45:34This week we're continuing our "good fall TV / bad fall TV" voyage with some really, truly, exceptionally bad TV: CBS's Wisdom of the Crowd, a show so bad that it decided the best way to solve crime was to invent a worse version of reddit. ... Read more →This week we're continuing our "good fall TV / bad fall TV" voyage with some really, truly, exceptionally bad TV: CBS's Wisdom of the Crowd, a show so bad that it decided the best way to solve crime was to invent a worse version of reddit. ... Read more →
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Episode 112: Return to the mailbag and farewell to Kings
Episode 112: Return to the mailbag and farewell to Kings
Published: 19 Oct 2017 Duration: 48:41This week we jump back into the mailbag to chat about, among other things, queer TV couples and other stuff we missed in previous episodes. Then we say a fond-ish farewell to NBC’s Kings, a one-season wonder that nevertheless lasted way lon... Read more →This week we jump back into the mailbag to chat about, among other things, queer TV couples and other stuff we missed in previous episodes. Then we say a fond-ish farewell to NBC’s Kings, a one-season wonder that nevertheless lasted way lon... Read more →
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